{"id":209874,"date":"2025-03-27T13:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/us-military-wants-to-grow-biological-structures-in-space"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:13:40","slug":"us-military-wants-to-grow-biological-structures-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/us-military-wants-to-grow-biological-structures-in-space","title":{"rendered":"US Military Wants to Grow Biological Structures in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PKUURKY1FV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Want to restore the planet\u2019s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 200 people to join Planet Wild with my code SABINE23 will get the first month for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/planetwild.com\/r\/sabinehossen\">https:\/\/planetwild.com\/r\/sabinehossen<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get to know them better first, check out their latest mission, where they go on to Kenya to find a more peaceful solution for the coexistence of lions and farms. <a href=\"https:\/\/planetwild.com\/r\/sabinehossen\">https:\/\/planetwild.com\/r\/sabinehossen<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Last month, DARPA published a call for proposals on how to \u201cgrow\u201d massive biological structures in space. It\u2019s not as crazy as it sounds: The space race is heating up outside of the weird space biology sector. Some startups are building self-assembling space habitats, others are working on spaceports, and the ISS\u2019s successor is in development. Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n<p>The DARPA Call: <a href=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/opp\/426e5868fcf74dd4a\">https:\/\/sam.gov\/opp\/426e5868fcf74dd4a<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd13 Check out my new quiz app \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/\">http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc8c Support me on Donorbox \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg\">https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\udcdd Transcripts and written news on Substack \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc49 Transcript with links to references on Patreon \u279c \/ sabine.<br \/> \ud83d\udce9 Free weekly science newsletter \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle\">https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udc42 Audio only podcast \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udd17 Join this channel to get access to perks \u279c<br \/> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sabinehossenfelder\">@sabinehossenfelder<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f On instagram \u279c \/ sciencewtg.<\/p>\n<p>#science #sciencenews #space #tech<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/us-military-wants-to-grow-biological-structures-in-space\">Continue reading \u201cUS Military Wants to Grow Biological Structures in Space\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to restore the planet\u2019s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 200 people to join Planet Wild with my code SABINE23 will get the first month for free at https:\/\/planetwild.com\/r\/sabinehossen\u2026 If you want to get to know them better first, check out their latest mission, where they go on to Kenya [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506,9,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food","category-military","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}